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The weekly menu

The weekly menu

Posted on
May 5, 2013
by zirkie

It is Sunday and time for the weekly menu! If you find anything on this week’s menu that you do not like, simply replace it with a dish from one of the previous weekly menus.

I am also including a shopping list to make it very easy for you to prepare delicious meals every day of this coming week!

[box title=”Monday” color=”#e3a8c5″]Vegetable stir fry with a creamy dressing

Vegetable stir fry with a creamy dressing

[/box][box title=”Tuesday” color=”#e3a8c5″] Spicy chicken with olives served with couscous

Spicy chicken with olives

[/box][box title=”Wednesday” color=”#e3a8c5″] Herby seafood and tomato soup with crusty bread rolls

Herby seafood and tomato soup

[/box][box title=”Thursday” color=”#e3a8c5″]Spaghetti bolognese with tomato, cucumber and green salad

Spaghetti bolognese

[/box][box title=”Friday” color=”#e3a8c5″]Honey and mustard pork chops with baby marrow chips

Honey and mustard pork chops

[/box][box title=”Saturday” color=”#e3a8c5″] Coq au vin with mashed potatoes

Coq au vin

[/box][box title=”Sunday” color=”#e3a8c5″] Leg of lamb cooked in muscadel with sweet peppers, roasted potatoes and sweet baby carrots

Leg of lamb cooked in muscadel

 [/box][box title=”Dessert of the week” color=”#e3a8c5″] Apricot jam pudding

Apricot jam pudding

[/box][box title=”Something to spoil your family with” color=”#e3a8c5″] Chocolate biscuits (for Mother’s day)

chocolate biscuits

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Shopping List

I am not including general ingredients like salt, pepper, oil, cake flour, milk, bread, sugar, eggs and butter to the Shopping List.

Make sure you have:

    ·         Olive Oil

    ·         Fish or chicken stock

    ·         Vegetable stock

    ·         Cake flour

    ·         Butter

    ·         Sunflower oil

    ·         Eggs

    ·         Bicarbonate of soda

    ·         Castor sugar

    ·         Vanilla essence

     

Meat

    ·         500g white fish

    ·         250g calamari steaks

    ·         12 prawns

    ·         18 half shell mussels

    ·         8 chicken thighs

    ·         12 chicken pieces (6 thighs and 6 drumsticks)

    ·         250g bacon

    ·         800g beef mince

    ·         6 pork chops

    ·         1 x 1.2kg leg of lamb

     

Dairy

    ·         Feta cheese

    ·         250g smooth plain creamed cottage cheese

    ·         2 x 250ml cream

     

Herbs and Spices

    ·         Dry oreganum

    ·         Cumin

    ·         Paprika

    ·         Bay leaves

    ·         Nutmeg

    ·         Driy chilli flakes

     

Other:

    ·         Bread rolls

    ·         Mayonaise

    ·         60g walnuts

    ·         3 x 410g tinned tomatoes

    ·         Green pitted olives

    ·         Couscous

    ·         Dry white wine

    ·         Spaghetti

    ·         Tomato paste

    ·         Honey

    ·         Whole-grain mustard

    ·         Soya sauce

    ·         Dijon mustard

    ·         Muscadel wine

    ·         Apricot jam

    ·         Ideal milk

    ·         Cocao

    ·         Nutella or 200g milk chocolate

     

Fruit and Vegetables: 

    ·         Cauliflower

    ·         Brocolli

    ·         Mange tout

    ·         Baby corn

    ·         Carrots

    ·         Baby marrows

    ·         2 x 250g Mushrooms

    ·         Baby onions

    ·         Salad leaves

    ·         Garlic

    ·         Onions

    ·         Leeks

    ·         Potatoes

    ·         Lemons

    ·         fresh dill

    ·         resh thyme

    ·         fresh oreganum

    ·         fresh parsley

    ·         fresh basil

    ·         fresh ginger root

    ·         fresh coriander leaves

    ·         tomatoes

    ·         cucumber

    ·         celery sticks

    ·         fresh rosemay

    ·         baby carrots

    ·         4 red peppers

    ·         4 yellow peppers

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BakingBeefBiscuitsChickenDessertLambMeatMeatless MondaysPastaPorkPoultrySaucesSeafoodSoupSupperWeekly menu tags: apricot jam pudding / beef / beef mince / biscuits / chicken / chocolate biscuits / cookies / Coq au vin / Creamy dressing / dessert / herby tomato and seafood soup / Lamb / Leg of Lamb cooked in muscadel / mains / Meat / menu and shopping list / menu for a week / mince / pasta / pinkpolkadotfood / Pork / pork chops / Pudding / seafood / shopping list / soup / Spaghetti bolognese / Spicy chicken with olives / supper / The weeklu menu / treats / Vegetable stir fry with creamy dressing / vegetables / Vegetarian

4 Responses

  1. Tandy May 5, 2013 at 1:49 pm

    I can barely schedule my blog posts for the week, let alone my meal plan! Well done for being so organized 🙂

    Reply
    • pinkpolkad0tfood May 5, 2013 at 2:28 pm

      It takes a lot of work to compile this! I would love to do it every week but unfortunately I do not always have time!

      Reply
  2. Ralph May 5, 2013 at 6:56 pm

    What a beautiful blog. I must have a look around to see where you have hidden the chocolates 😉 Ralph xox 😀

    Reply
  3. Lisaman May 5, 2013 at 9:02 pm

    Hey Pinks.. Hope you are well… Have no idea why I don’t see you for ages and then you re appear on the blogs I follow.. Strange!!

    Reply

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